Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Native version on Windows 2000

From:

Andrew Ferguson

Subject:

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Native version on Windows 2000

Date:

Thu, 2 Oct 2008 00:20:02 -0400

On Sep 17, 2008, at 10:26 PM, Brendan Grossman wrote:

Hi all
Just wondering if anyone is running the native Windows version on
Windows 2000 successfully?
I am having this same problem on all my Windows 2000 servers. The data
is copied, but then it exits with the following:
Thu Sep 18 11:06:33 2008 Exception '(1336,
'ConvertSecurityDescriptorToStringSecurityDescriptor', 'The access
control list (ACL) structure is invalid.')' raised of class '<class
'pywintypes.error'>':

Hi Brendan,

You're right -- rdiff-backup 1.2.1 does not run on Windows 2000. It's
support for Windows security descriptors (ACLs) has a few
difficulties. Thanks for bringing those problems to light, and thanks
to Fred Gansevles for doing the initial support for Windows ACLs.

After getting a Windows 2000 VM up and running, I've been able to fix
all of the issues I can generate. The fixes are in CVS, and I will
releasing a new version, 1.2.2, after I finish my testing.

If you'd like to try it as well, I have made a pre-release of the
Windows version available: